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Monthly Archives: April 2004
Democratic prima dona haircuts
What’s the deal with presidents and presidential candidates and their haircuts? Drudge is reporting that John Waffles Kerry flew his hairdresser to Pittsburg at an estimated cost of $1000 before a Meet the Press appearance. You may remember that Clinton … Continue reading
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World’s Largest Ball of Paint
CBS News Sunday Morning did an excellent story on the word’s largest ball of paint. With 18,000+ coats of paint, this thing is huge…and quite an example of patience and committment.
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Building JXTA
The TWiki . Jxta . BuildingJXTA wiki entry describes a sweet build process for JXTA. It uses ant to pull the source from CVS then build, and it can be applied to several other JXTA projects such as the shell … Continue reading
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GFS: The Google File System
More comments and links on the Google empire, Steve Neiderhauser: Product Platform Performs for Google. The PDF describing the GFS is here.
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The biggest network in the world
Google and Akamai: Cult of Secrecy vs. Kingdom of Openness is an interesting article on these two companies that run massive distributed networks of computers. Perhaps the most interesting bits of information is the speculation on the size of Google’s … Continue reading
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Gosling’s take on the Sun/Microsoft settlement
In this post, James Gosling chimes in on the Sun/Microsoft settlement. He ends his post with, “We’re not a bunch of moronic secret subversive Microsoft lapdogs. We’ve worked very hard over the years to fairly balance the needs of all … Continue reading
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Free Lessig Audio Book
I’ve always thought it was interesting that the open source community is a fan of Larry Lessig. Did they choose him or did he choose them? Nevertheless, in the day of the DMCA, every geek needs a good lawyer; and … Continue reading
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Free Software Essentials
Excellent, that was really well explained and helpful government grants
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Another IBM J2ME win
Wind River – Wind River and Apogee Software Partner to Integrate IBM Java Technology into Wind River Platforms Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), the global leader in device software optimization, today announced that the IBM WebSphere® Micro Environment, will be … Continue reading
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Java and the Palm OS
This is a good overview of palmOne’s support of Java and their adoption of the IBM’s WebSphere Micro Environment, a J2ME runtime.
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